Coming to Grips With an Urban Heroin Addiction Epidemic

1 January 1973

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA)

Vol. 223 (1) , 46-48
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1973.03220010032007

Abstract

Early in 1970, the District of Columbia began a major program aimed at treating all the city's heroin addicts within three years. As a result of these efforts, 4,200 of the city's 18,000 addicts are now in treatment in 21 centers. The heroin addiction epidemic in Washington may have been stabilized but it has not ended. Seven lessons have been learned which temper some of the initial optimism and suggest future directions.

Keywords

TREATMENT
ADDICTS
SEVEN LESSONS
EPIDEMIC EARLY
PROGRAM AIMED
INITIAL OPTIMISM
URBAN HEROIN

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Profile of a Heroin-Addiction Epidemic
New England Journal of Medicine, 1971
Development of a heroin-addiction treatment program. Effect on urban crime
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) ,1971